breaking news out of las vegas where a vehicle crashed into a crowd of people on the strip. it happened outside the paris hotel and casino. 37 people rushed to the hospital. seven remain in critical condition, one person was killed. the driver was taken into custody and is being checked for alcohol and other substances. a large part of the strip will remain closed during the investigation. stay for abc 7 news for breaking updates and follow us on twitter at abc 7 news bay area. i'm eric thomas.

one person in custody after allegedly making threats against muslims and having a homemade explosive device. police evacuated neighbors homes and the bomb squad detonated the device three hours ago. no one was hurt. dark clouds hung over the bay area before the rain moved in today. this video shows the overcast sky and the rain pelting wind shields. and in santa rosa, this video of light rain falling coming down steadily all day. and our emeryville camera, the rain is not too heavy, but it is wet out there. this is the most persistent light rain we have seen in some time. busy tracking the showers moving through the bay area tonight. we'll show you where the stediest rain is falling. it's moving in a direction into

cities that haven't seen rain for much of the day. it's finally moist enough in the south bay. outside here at abc 7, a damp night along the embarcadero. san francisco picked up an inch of rain in the past 24 hours. this is the most we've seen in about a year in a single day. santa rosa, napa, oakland, all over 1/2 inch. steady showers tonight. tomorrow morning a brief break. next storm event tomorrow afternoon. that looks to pack a bigger punch. the full forecast coming up. >> thank you very much. up in the fresh snow is creating traffic problems. chains required on highway 50 and interstate 80. one tow truck driver has seen a couple of rollovers and says people are driving too fast. once you get past the slick roads, people are having a great time. >> feels great. we love it. we were just here yesterday. >> feels like christmas. that's what christmas is all

about. >> one two three inches expected from tonight's storm. all the snow is bringing the lake tahoe watershed snow bank to a slightly higher than normal level. you get unusual weather where you live, take a photo or video and share it with us using abc 7 now. that will help us find your content and use it on the air. poor weather may be to blame for a plane that crashed after it disappeared from radar last night. it was flying from reed hill view airport to the las vegas area the plane crashed south of bakersfield killing five people. cornell bernard has details. >> what is outside grilling in the rain and heard an airplane, sounded like an airplane rev strong. >> jose sanchez heard the plane in trouble over bakersfield. the single engine piper pa-32 took off saturday afternoon, boundç for henderson, nevada,

when it crashed near bakersfield killing five people on board. sanchez says there was bad weather. too cloudy to see anything. he heard the plane come down. >> next thing you know, i heard a pop. about half a second later, it sounded like going into a dive bomb. >> reporter: the aircraft identified by its tail number vanished from radar about 4:00 p.m. this is recording of the distress call. >> may day, may day. november 402. >> may day, may day. >> bakersfield airport is 11:00 and 1.0 miles west bound. >> air controllers warned the pilot of poor weather up ahead. the plane was registered to lamted liability cop in san jose. cornell bernard, abc 7 news. one east bay church

celebrated its annual christmas service today despite a crash that destroyed part of its building. abc 7 news was in vallejo for the event. each year the congregation collects toys and gives them to children in the community. last night two people were hurt when a car slammed into the church. the driver was speeding. the crash destroyed two rooms, which is used to teach those children. >> this is our spiritual house. people were real worried. obviously, everybody came together and still came to church and they're here celebrating with all of us. >> church leaders are thankful those involved survived the crash. cleanup was scheduled around today's service. >> thousands of underserved children in the south bay are going to have new toys for the holidays. abc 7 news was in san jose as volunteers of sacred heart sorted through a mountain of donations from the donation station. 18,000 toys will be begin out to

6,000 children starting on tuesday. organizers say the need has increased. >> it's a little higher than last year. we have seen the need increase for our services. >> as of this morning, they were still 5,100 toys short of their goal. you can drop off a new donation through wednesday. they need gifts for teenagers. we have all the information on the drop-off location and how to make an onlike donation at abc7news.com. donald trump is firing back. last night at the abc news democratic debate, candidates took aim at the gop front-runner. trump called them liars. dech dwyer is in washington with moefrmt. >> reporter: after the democratic debate, the republican front-runner fired back. >> she just made it up. it was a sound byte. >> reporter: donald trump attacked hillary clinton for this explosive allegation. >> he is becoming isis' best recruiter. they are going to people showing

videos of donald trump insulting islam and muslims in order to recruit. >> reporter: both the white house and terror experts say there is no hard evidence isis is using videos of trump to recruit. today the clinton campaign clarified that the former secretary of state was not referencing a specific video. trump tweeted hillary clinton lied. >> you sure you want to go down that road? the fact checkers have called you out on more false statements than any other candidate. >> people call me out, but they turn out to be wrong. >> reporter: senator bernie sanders argued that trump deliberately misleads. >> i say this, you have a pathd logical liar there. much of what he says are lies. are or gross distortions of reality. >> reporter: trump was the biggest target in the new hampshire debate. the only republican candidate called out by name. even his fellow republicans are taking aim at their

front-runner. >> i was in new jersey on september 11th. thousands of people simply were not celebrating in jersey city. >> reporter: candidates attacking within and across party lines as primary voters and caucus goers get closer to making a decision. devon dwyer, abc news washington. the outpouring of support from abc 7 news viewers after a learning center and ranch was forced to close its doors. spacex not taking any chance with a rocket heading into space today what elon musk said about the scrubbed flight.

new details on the closure

of a popular summer camp and after school children in the north bay. owners of mcdonald ranch tell abc 7 news since our story aired two weeks ago, they were able to place nearly all their animals into new homes. linda and richard mcdonald opened the 50-acre sanctuary 23 years ago after losing one of their jobs they can't afford to keep the nonprofit sanctuary going. they received $8,000 in donations. on tuesday they are meeting with someone who offered to help them work on a new business plan. california-based spacex is delaying the launch of falcon 9 rocket. tonight was supposed to be the first launch since an accident grounded the rocket in june. the redesign rocket is securing seven satellites and will launch from cape canaveral in florida. elon musk tweeted tomorrow night has a 10% higher chance of a good landing, punting 24 hours. coming up next -- all aboard the holiday train at this

one-of-a-kind winter wonderland in the south bay. if you are dreaming of a white christmas, you may get your wish. top day for our local heroes. raiders connection caught fire against the packers. it was earlier damage that made it tough to overco

one of san jose's great holiday traditions is back on display. christmas in the park is drawing in holiday revelers all over the bay area. it's been a tradition over 30 years. essential magazine called christmas in the park one of the top ten displays of holiday marge magic in the world. each year volunteers put in

260,000 hours putting in the display. it looks like our football team could have used more practice themselves. we'll get to that in a moment. we'll get to the weather right now. this has been a persistent storm. >> it little storm that could. keeps raining lightly. these numbers are adding up with more rain on the way for monday. an active picture tracking that steady light rain. the steadiest is beginning to move into the south bay. light showers working their way through san jose. light rain in palo alto. light showers in fremont. light rain in san francisco. light rain in oakland. this is the theme, persistent light rain at least through the midnight hour tonight. temperatures under the cloud cover really have not budged all that much. we've generally been sitting in the mid 40s to low 50s for much of the evening. that's where they'll sit the next couple of hours. as you go hour by hour, early

tomorrow morning 2:00, we are starting to see the tail end of this light rain beginning to move through. i think we'll see a temporary lull in the activity 9:00 on your monday morning. most areas will see wet roads. there won't be much rainfall. monday afternoon 4:00, we'll track downpours. something we are seeing, this next storm may favor the south bay. even lingering into tuesday as well. by tuesday 9:00 in the morning tracking light showers. this is a longer storm that's going to settle over the bay area tomorrow. our storm will be a moderate storm with downpours developing in the afternoon and evening. this looks to be a good soaking storm between 1/2 inch and inch of total rainfall. some of our wettest spots could see over an inch of rain. future tracker rainfall shows you by tuesday morning, oakland, hayward, livermore. san francisco 3/4 inch.

san jose 0.8. north bay coming in between 3/4 and inch. a winter storm warning tomorrow morning below 7,000 feet between 4-12 inches. future tracker snow total shows you 32 inches of snow in tahoe city. 35 inches in kirk wood. 44 in south lake tahoe and 14 in incline village. fresh powder coming to the sierra once again. overnight tonight back in the bay area we'll have this on and off light showers through midnight. cloudy. school with temperatures in the mid 40s to lower 50s. then we'll see a temporary lull in the activityomorrow morning. we'll have cloudy skies. some wet road then our next wave moves in the afternoon that. could have heav downpours with the rain moving in, mid to upper 50s. tomorrow our next storm in the

afternoon with downpours with a two. lingering shower possible on tuesday. wednesday sun and clouds. thursday, christmas eve, scattered showers. out of here by christmas day. next weekend saturday and sunday, mostly sunny to partly cloudy skies. we are dry. as you look towards next monday, our next storm comes through. an active pattern. >> that's better than being in the inactive pattern like last year. thanks. speaking of inactive patterns. our local teams. raiders needed a win to stay alive in the postseason. unfortunately, the packers were in town. they came out firing, but to the wrong team. he's excited. rough start. first pick led to a touchdown run.second. picked off by randal. 43-yard pick. raiders except their composure.

carr, 19 yards strike to coop. raiders down 14-13 at the half. ac/dc connect again. the first raider since 2005 to have 1,000-yard leading receiver. he can't watch. green bay with a 30-25 victory. >> coach mike mccarthy did a better job than jack did with his team. that's how it is. a business where you look to put together your best effort and put it on the line. we didn't get it done tonight. >> it hurts. it hurt my heart, you know? to be honest. because i know how much work i put into this, how much work our team puts into this. >> every game the team is going to grow because of the

situation. every game is different. we learn from this situation. >> joe montana at levi today honoring the '81 and '88 super bowl teams. jeremy hill. hill again. 14-0 cincy. blaine gabbert to mcdonald. he's going to knock it into the air, not down. a.j. mccarron. first career start. 20-yard strike. 21-0. cincy at the half. bernard. all five. that will make a coach happy. 49ers scored 14 points in the second half. anquan bolden. a 24-14 loss. >> in 4:23 it went from 0-0 to 21-0.

i'm not going to evaluate the personnel today. i don't have the answer on why it's a problem today. i don't. i have to find that answer. >> it's up to us to put the product on the field to win the game. we have to go out there and take it upon ourselves to execute at a high level and not put everybody in a situation of losing football games. >> game of the day, undefeated panthers hosted by the giants. cam newton threw for five td passes. 14-yarder. 35-7 panthers. five minutes left in the third quarter. giants scored 28 straight. eli manning, 14-yard pass to o'dell beckham jr who had zero catches in the first half. ties the game at 35-35. cam newton led the team down the field. newton the first player in nfl history with 300 passion yards, 100 yards rushing in a game. panthers 14-0 with a 38-35 victory. >> game four with the sharks

facing the blackhawks. the up ice pass. 1-1 gay. sharks 3-2 lead in the third. beats martin jones. goes to overtime. they play three-on-three. chicago got a two-on-one. follow me with the math. captain finishes it off. sharks lose their second straight 4-3 your final. a tour of the nfl with our plays of the day an update the picture at 11:00 p.m. on abc 7. tough day for our local teams. >> it really was. we were taking the hits. thank you. next, the return of the dark side and rise of the rebellion. "star wars" fans storm movie theaters. were they enough to help "the force awakens" break the record?

coming up at 11:00, a surfing legend says he built the perfect man made wave. a boy scouts' troop scary encount were a bear in the woods. tonight on abc 7 news at 11:00. there is very little surprise as to who won the box office this weekend. the final figure did eclipse most estimates. "star wars" the force awakens stormed into theaters late thursday. the studio kept reviews under wraps until the last minute to help hide surprises. those reviews are now at 95% fresh on rotten tomatoes and made $238 million, the largest opening weekend ever. it made $515 worldwide, nearly 1/5 of the way of "titanic's"

record of $2.8 billion. number two "alvin and the chipmunks" came in second. "sisters" came in third. our parent company disney has planned four "star wars" movies over the next four years so more money. coming out of your pocket. we'll see you at 11:00.

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